https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Validate-compression-type-in-HDFS/m-p/296707#M218368 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/78381">@Sourav1982</a>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You can use parquet-tools and avro-tools command to check the file metadata.</P><P>Use the meta option to extract the compression details.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Refer&nbsp;<A href="https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/tree/master/parquet-tools" target="_blank">https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/tree/master/parquet-tools</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Hope this helps,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Paras</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><STRONG><I>Was your question answered? Make sure to mark the answer as the accepted solution.</I></STRONG><BR /><STRONG><I>If you find a reply useful, say thanks by clicking on the thumbs up button.</I></STRONG></SPAN></P> Wed, 27 May 2020 11:06:30 GMT paras 2020-05-27T11:06:30Z